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Love, Freud, and the Female Gothic: Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars

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From: Gothic Studies
Date: 20040501
Author:Smith, Andrew

The most striking phenomenon of his erotic life after maturity was his liability to compulsive attacks of falling physically in love which came on and disappeared again in the most puzzling succession. These attacks released a tremendous energy in him even at times when he was otherwise inhibited, and they were quite beyond his control.

Sigmund Freud, 'The "Wolf Man"'1

Once when I expounded to her a specially important part of the theory, one touching her nearly, she replied in an inimitable tone, 'How very interesting', as though she were a grande dame being taken over a museum and glancing ...

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